Identifier: 20thcenturyhisto01rock (find matches)
Title: 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rockel, William M. (William Mahlon), 1855-1930, ed
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Publisher: Chicago, Biographical publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tlement of various places.The fact seems to be, however, that the French as a general rule, were kindlier in their dealings with the Indians than were the English colonists. Had it not been for these settlements made by persons from the English col-onies, and had it not been that this ter-ritory was under dominion of the English when the treaty was made, acknowledg-ing the United States as an independent government, this great northwest would not have been included, and it did remain for sometime afterward a question, just how far north the English Government did surrender her dominion to the United States. It was a mater of considerable controversy and was not finally settled until the war of 1812. Important Paet in the Revolution. The taking or keeping of this northwest territory upon the part of revolutionary forces, has been frequently recognized as one of the most important events in Amer-ican history. Mr. E. 0. Randall gives it very great importance when he says: The Northwest Territory was the
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GEN. ARTHUR ST. CLAIR. GEN. JOSIAH HAMAR. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 67 great background of the Revolution. The fiendish proposal of the British ministry to secure the scalping knife and the toma-hawk in aid of the mother country against her rebellious child, called forth from the elder Pitt another of his immortal bursts of eloquence. But the British power would not abandon its brutal plans. The military posts of the British, on the lakes and the rivers of the Illinois country, were rallying centers for the western savages,who were provisioned, armed and infu-riated against the Americans, and sent forth on expeditions of massacre and rapine. Deeds of bravery and patriotism were enacted in the Ohio Valley more romantic than the often rehearsed events in the Atlantic colonies. The soil of Ohio was the scene of a large share of the struggle for existence of the new-born republic. The career of the colonists from Lexington and Concord was chiefly a series of victories during the years 1775and 1776 to th

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